Three nuns from the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, encouraged to come to Polson by Father William O'Maley, arrived in Polson September 11, 1916, but couldn't find a place to stay. So they converted the East Side (Polson) Hotel into a hospital with a capacity for six patients. It was enlarged to 11 beds by the time the Spanish flu epidemic of 1917-1918 ravaged the area.

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